How are Relays Determined?
- Relays are comprised of the fastest possible combination of swimmers based on official RMSL league seed times.
- If your swimmer wants to be considered for a relay, they should make sure to have a seed time in a 25 or 50m event of the stroke they want to swim in a relay.
- Timed trials are not performed.
- Seed times from other leagues are not used.
- For the Freestyle relay, the coaches use the seed times in the 25m or 50m freestyle event. The 4 fastest available swimmers become the “A” relay for the meet, the next 4 become the “B” relay and so on. The coaches will create as many relays as possible to give the maximum number of swimmers the opportunity to participate.
- For the medley relay, the coaches use the available seed times in each of the 4 strokes to create the fastest combination of swimmers. In order for a swimmer to participate in the medley relay, they need to have legally completed the stroke in a previous meet. As with the free relay, the coaches will create as many relay teams as possible for each meet.
- For dual meets and for prelims, relays are created after individual entries are determined so that the coaches have confirmation of the available swimmers. If your child is on a relay team, it is very important that they participate in the meet. If your swimmer is asked to participate in a relay for prelims, they need to commit to be available for finals should the team qualify.
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